| Show AUTUMN AuTu ar DAYS when autumn days come nature like a retired merchant changeat its manner from thrift and bustling industry to languid leisure and to ostentatious luxury the sun rises later and ibets earlier than when it had all the Sun summers imers crops on hand and was playing universal bus husbandman bandman there is in no nest building now and no bird singing a which is a purely domestic dorna doma arrangement designed on the birds part to keep peace in the family while the childers chil dern are being raised and laid aside as aa soon son s on as aa the young birds are off their hands mornings come fleeced in mists which ch hang bang over streams and low foists places the sun plays with them but tit they perish in his arms A few belated flox flowers yet keep watch but chiefly the asters which fringe aringe the fields star the edges of forests and like a late comer at a feast seem bent upon making snaking u up lor for lost time at night crickets kela keis and katy aids scrape their slit sh ill violy and fill the air air with dil lous music over all the shrinking fields the tices cices lift up their grog foliage and like those who wait for the marriage bell and the bridegroom they shine out ont in glorious glori oua apparel the hills bills forest clad are become the olds younger sons and like joseph they are dressed in in a coat of many col ors october days short between horizons leach higher into the vault than any days of the year and through gli them the season seems to look with softened sadness as one who in the calm calin of age meditates on all the mistakes of his hin past life and solemnly thinks upon the advancing future along the fence rows seeds and late berries may be found birds hop silently as if ashamed to be seen soon they will change their solitary ways and collect in flocks tu day dav the tha fields will them tom to m morrow there will not be one left and they will wil I 1 be P picking king their food many degrees of latitude south H IV beecher I 1 |
